With Jack Bailey
Scripture The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid? ~Psalm 27:1, NIV Quote To love God is to destroy all other fear. To love the world is to be afraid of everything. ~Elisebeth Elliot I don’t watch news. This…
Scripture Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? ~Matthew 6:26-27, NLT Quote The happiest people in the world are those who…
Scripture When I am afraid, I will trust in You. ~Psalm 56:3, CSB Quote Trust is God is the antidote to fear, because the reality of God is greater than the reality of the object that causes us to fear. ~John Goldingay My mother taught me Psalm 56:3 when I was a small boy. I think…
Scripture “And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” ~Genesis 12:3, LSB Quote Subtract Jesus from the equation and you have nothing: add Him and you have everything. ~Ya’akov Genesis twelve is a record of…
Scripture For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. ~1 Corinthians 13:12, LSB Quote “I know that I know nothing.” ~Plato I was laying in bed the other night thinking about…
Scripture If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him! ~Luke 11:13, ESV Quote Everything is grace, but still it must be kept in mind that God is pleased to work by means. ~John…
Scripture “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in Me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father.” ~John 14:12, NLT Quote God made humans receptacles, and unless we learn to receive, the Christ life will be impossible for us. ~Calvin…
Scripture Hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. ~Ephesians 6:16, NLT Quote The life of a holy man is a continual warfare with sin, the world, the flesh and the devil. ~John Charles Ryle There is no doubt that the Christian life is a war and faith is…
Scripture “If you trust Me, you are trusting not only Me, but also God who sent Me.” ~John 12:44, NLT Quote Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us. ~Elisebeth Elliott The Christian faith is filled with mystery and paradox. We say that God is love and then we say that He is…
Scripture By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. ~Hebrews 11:8, LSB Quote What good is knowing the destination if you don’t know the way. ~Augustine [City of God} The key…